Pause for Prayer

A large group of people was standing, looking over the wall to the shore. It was low tide and a narrow strip of sand had emerged from underneath the black waters.
In a sheltered corner, five young people had sculpted the sand into a three-piece settee, complete with cushions and detailed upholstery. Not far away, a [...]

People are all shapes, sizes, colours and have an amazing range of abilities and disabilities.
That might be something of a truism, but face a rush hour in a busy city and it is amazing what God can do with two eyes, a nose and a mouth! It is equally fascinating to see how it is [...]

I don’t normally reproduce the contents of a press conference for this reflection, but I was impressed at what the new Father General of the Jesuits, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, had to say, so I reproduce it below.
God bless,
Sr. Janet
“First of all, I want to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Society [...]

Many outsiders would not expect a Community of Religious Sisters to be sports mad, but, believe me, it happens! I have lived in communities where the football results achieve almost a sacred status on a Saturday evening. I have frequently been amazed by the ease at which scores and performance can be analysed and mentally [...]

I would have switched off the radio had I not been at a crucial point in something on the other side of the room. Before listening to what he was about to say, I had already decided that the words of one of the world’s best-known scientists would be sheer rubbish. I rarely hear of [...]